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- From: mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Sony Mini-Disc Questions/Debate
- Date: 13 Aug 1992 03:13:59 GMT
- Organization: Institute For Nonlinear Science, UCSD
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- langrlld@rtsg.mot.com (Daniel J. Langrill) writes:
- : fox@cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) writes:
- :
- : >In article <7490214@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> mike-b@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Michael Bishop) writes:
- :
- : > How does the rest of the net feel about the DCC vs Mini-disc issue?
- : > Does anyone think that DCC is inherently superior to mini-disc? If so,
- : > why?
- :
- : I can't say that I have hard facts to support my belief, but I think that
- : DCC, inherently better or not, is going to make a bigger splash in the
- : marketplace than MD will. Being backwards compatible with cassettes is a
- : big plus to a lot of consumers.
- :
- : The one thing that I do find really cool about MD, though, is the fact that it
- : buffers its data before sending it out.
-
- Also, you can re-record over a track, and have the new timing be longer
- than the old, without cutting off the next song, or you can record a
- shorter track, without a large blank spot.
-
- It does this by allocating "blocks" in the conventional way, as in
- computer file systems. The buffer allows for seeking while maintaining
- continous playback.
-
- --
- -Matt Kennel mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu
- -Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego
-